Andrew POE!

Yes, it has. You would have people standing there and camping with a sniper rifle and ability spamming in Destiny 1 but they (quickly) learned that they would die. With this, 4 vs. 4 have fewer players and more chances to have matches slow down to a crawl.

I'm at 300 for my Warlock. Iron Banner has turned The Crucible into even more of a campfest. "Let's camp near a corner THE ENTIRE MATCH." I keep waiting for Lord Saladin to shout "Grow a fuckin' pair of balls and act like a Guardian, not like you gotta take a crap!" Bungie really needs to do something about The Crucible with the next patch. Most matches I'm above 1.50 in efficiency, but just the overall quality of play leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe having burning if you stand still longer than 5 seconds.

Completed the raid last night and just got Titan subclasses trophy and Prestige Nightfall/Raid trophy to go before I Platinum Destiny 2. The raid was decent -- but it's sorta annoying that it seems to be a hub rather than a raid. You basically could join someone who has done all the work, do the last battle, and you'll get the trophy (like I did). Although it took several hours to complete the final battle. And Grow Fat From Strength.

One trophy away from platinum'ing Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. Problem is the last trophy is complete the co op campaign and it's local co op (no online co op). Pretty damn hard with two controllers and having the second character keep dying from waves of enemies. I'm having to ask a friend offline to come by my place to help me. Ugh.

Iron Banner with no power levels will not negate the camping, so it's pointless.

Hunter for me is made out of paper mache. If your character is nearing death dealing with enemies and you're above the recommended level for a mission, then there's a problem. So basically Destiny 2 is built for Titans and that's it. Destiny had more of a balance with enemy encounters where you could snipe away from a distance but weren't too underpowered (Hunter), be a mixture of close up attacks and further away but the right gear mitigates damage (Warlock) and be a defensive tank that can absorb a decent bit of damage (Titan). Also, almost everyone I talked to that I do trophy boosting with said if you want to complete a raid or a prestige nightfall strike, you use a Titan. If you have more than 3 Titans on a team during a raid, you'll get it done easily.

Got Riskrunner from Shaxx's Call to Arms this week and it's at 300 now. Got my Warlock up to 294. Too bad Warlocks die too easily than they did in Destiny 1.

If only it was getting a PlayStation release for me.

Oh that's right and Mario & Luigi's Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions and Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaire's Conspiracy. I guess I'll be getting some 3DS games this week (or wait until Black Friday for them).

Next week has Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen coming to PS4. And that's about it. Battle Chasers: Nightwar is also coming and supposedly Battle Garegga Rev 2016 is coming too.

Depending on how well you do in public events, the game will give you exotic engrams. I've gotten at least EIGHT exotic engrams from public events with about five from Crucible. The flip side to that is The Life Exotic didn't unlock for me until my 18th exotic and it was one that decrypted from Master Rahool. FInally, he's useful! And he gave me an exotic helmet from a legendary engram this morning, just because.

Arthur Morgan acts (and sounds) like Josh Brolin. There's been comparisons between this trailer and Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I'm strangely excited for this game, despite never having played through the story of RDR (but did lots of multiplayer trophies). I guess one of my Platinums before hit Platinum 100 needs to be this.

I'm trying to get my Origin Story (best gun in the game IMO) to be above 290 -- what auto rifle is going to be around so that I can break it down? I got my Warlock at 290 today and picked up Rat King (all that work for THAT???) and Mida Multi-Tool Scout Rifle as an exotic scout rifle.

Expect them in RDR II. You'll be using the 1800's equivalent of them.

You realized that Square Enix just announced a new Front Mission game at Tokyo Game Show for PS4 and Xbox One? Currently, it's called Left Alive and it'll be a third person shooter. It sorta sounds like The Last of Us but with mechs and very Japanese.

Yeah, sniper something or other. He looked at my clan and asked "are you in a clan?" I was like yes, then he was like "I sent a request to join." "I would prefer if you didn't do that."

This week we got: Danganronpa V3, Blue Reflection (Gust Action RPG with anime girls), Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash (just look it up not at work), Summon Night 6 (never thought this was coming), Gundam Versus, Hob (from Torchlight people), Ruiner and Steamworld Dig 2. My wallet am cry. Lots of weebo Japanese stuff on PS4.

Some kid I met online who wouldn't stop talking tried to join the clan. I sorta told him it wouldn't be a good idea. You may have accepted his request. Gah, why can't I encounter trophy hunters on this game?

I went ahead and got it and I'm hoping before I die, I'll actually play it (jk).

Final Fantasy IX is OUT RIGHT NOW on PS4. Go get it.

Anyone want to do Nightfall strikes and Trials of the Nines with me? PSN ID is POEman553.

I somehow have gotten SEVEN exotic weapons/armors since I started playing (mainly from Crucible, public events, etc.). I'm not complaining but I'll need to continue and get 8 for the 15 exotics trophy before Bungie nerfs the exotic engram drop rate.

I'll be doing prestige level Nightfall or raid because it's part of the Platinum. And I'm probably nuts. The constant public events have been helpful for me to get exotic engrams. Oh and after the update I get the message after an update "this version of Destiny 2 is no longer available" when I try to connect. Anyone else with the same problem? EDIT: Nevermind, the server maintenance ends at 2 pm today. That could be it.

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